Some Iraqi Shiites are talking about going to Lebanon as volunteer fighters against Israel.

Condi Rice said on Sunday that it was "grotesque" to suggest that "policies that confront extremism" actually "cause extremism." She was referring to George Stephanopolous's point that the Bush administration kept promising that invading and occupying Iraq would make the Middle East more peaceful (!).

The logical fallacy here is to describe a unilateral war of aggression and then a botched occupation with the euphemism of "confronting extremism." Of course the former can cause extremism. And did. That's not grotesque, that's just the fact of the matter.